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Cash flows of enterprises: their assessment and analysis

The processes taking place in the economy in recent decades clearly demonstrate that the economic and social stability of society depends on the financial stability of enterprises. One of the most important signs of financial stability is the ability of an enterprise to generate cash flows. The presence of money from the enterprise determines the possibility of its survival and directions for further development. Any company in the course of its activities has a need for financial resources necessary for the implementation of relationships with other legal entities and individuals. The uninterrupted circulation of cash flows in the reproduction process means the fulfillment of obligations to the budget, partners, the absence of overdue debts to the enterprise and the enterprise itself, normal solvency, necessary financial stability, creditworthiness and profitability. The cash flow of an enterprise is a continuous process. For each direction of funds use there must be an appropriate source. In a broad sense, the assets of an enterprise represent the net use of cash, and liabilities and equity are net sources.
A research aim was to conduct the all-round analysis of enterprise money forming streams, estimate the degree of sufficientness and efficiency for providing of their balanced and synchronization. For realization of the put aim tasks are pulled out: to find out the value of money streams in activity of menage subjects; to conduct the analysis of certain enterprise money forming streams; to carry out the estimation of composition, dynamics and efficiency of enterprise money streams management.
Research methodology is folded by the scientific methods of cognition and special, in particular, economic and statistical methods (comparison, grouping, tabular, graphic, standardizations of investigated phenomena indexes), economic and logical methods (elimination, vertical, horizontal, coefficient analysis) which provided the solution of the tasks in the chosen research direction.
 The article discusses the nature and characteristics of cash flows. The above classification and sources of cash flow. On the example of agricultural enterprise "Sloboda " was estimated efficiency of cash flow.
The main activities of the enterprise are: the cultivation of grain crops (except rice), legumes and oilseeds; breeding dairy cattle; breeding pigs; sugar production; breeding other animals; auxiliary activities in crop production. The input streams of this company are 100% solely cash from operating activities. Having considered the structure of the PSP “Sloboda” initial cash flows for 2015-2017, we can say that the main share of cash flows from operating activities (80-90%), from investment activities – 10-20%. Conclusions were made on improving the efficiency of cash flows.
With the aim to increase cash flows of private agricultural enterprise "Sloboda" management efficiency it is necessary: to attract in practice the calculation of money streams indexes system as measuring devices of financial firmness and solvency; to study area conformities of money law streams and take them into account in practice and analysis of enterprise; to determine streams in registration, including operative, and information for timely forming of the extended dataware of enterprises cash flow analysis; to perfect money streams methodology of analysis; to take into account the factors of enterprise money motion in the conditions of vagueness and risk.
Key words: cash, incoming cash flows, cash outflows, cash flow analysis, efficiency, profitability, liquidity, agricultural enterprise.

 

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